Lynn Smailes: A Prescribed Life

SWWVic member, Lynn Smailes can now add to her list of accomplishments. Lynn collaborated with Tony Atkinson to write his autobiography, A Prescribed Life: Royalty, Romance and Medicine, published by Affirm Press in June 2016. Tony’s has been an interesting and amusing life: surviving a brutal British boarding school, dodging Hitler’s bombs in England during World War II, working as a footman for Queen Elizabeth during the Coronation era, and his misadventures as a medical student moonlighting as waiter for the Churchills at 10 Downing Street. The adventure continued when Tony and the love of his life came to 1960s Australia as ‘ten-pound Poms’. Tony eventually settled into a medical career as a specialist anaesthetist, where his ability to see the funny side of life continued to sustain him in times of great change in his life, wider society and medicine.